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The Goldcorp case – example of ideagora How on earth can wikinomics help a gold-mining company? – A struggling company, Canadas least-producing gold-mine –Revolutionary idea: share the geological data of the mine openly in the Web previously, geological data considered to be the most strategic and secret asset to be safe-guarded from the competitors… Goldcorp Challenge: 575000$ prize money for those who come with best methods and estimates about where to drill 1000 experts from 50 countries participated, new types of expertise involved over 80% of the new suggested targets yelded substantial quantities of gold The company growed since from 100 mill -> 9 bill.

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Moving to another context – Can ideagoras be used for innovating university education? What kind of innovations for education can be outsourced – what not? Would someone truly be involved in innovating learning for universities? –…lose of strategic advantage? –…however, it was very non-traditional for Goldcorp!

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Yet another context – can IS development be ideagorized? …is that a field innovative enough? …or… perhaps: How to bring in more jobs to a remote municipality? …but what innovation needs to be held in possession of the company, anyhow?

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Exam questions? Describe the differences between peer production & ideagora -concepts? Discuss about pros and cons of using peer production as a means to conduct a group work in a university course. How would software development be diffferent if it would be organized as peer production vs. as through an ideagora?